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Born: February 28, 1954 in Ostende, Citizenship: Citizen of Belgium Education: 1977 - Ph.D., Free University of Brussels 1979 - Habilitation Degree, Free University of Brussels Appointments: Research Fellowship in Belgium NSF (NFWO), 1975-1981 Professor at Free University of Brussels, 1981-1985 J.L. Doob Professor of , University of Illinois, 1985-2006 Professor a IHES (), 1985-1995 Lady Davis Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988 Fairchild Distinguished Professor, Caltech, 1991 Professor IAS, 1994- IBM, Von Neumann Professor IAS, 2010– Honors: Alumni Prize, Belgium NSF, 1979 Empain Prize, Belgium NSF, 1983 Salem Prize, 1983 Damry-Deleeuw-Bourlart Prize (awarded by Belgian NSF), 1985 (quintesimal Belgian Science Prize) Langevin Prize (French Academy), 1985 E. Cartan Prize (French Academy), 1990 (quintesimal) Ostrowski Prize, Ostrowski Foundation (Basel-), 1991 (biannual) Fields Medal, ICM Zurich, 1994 I.V. Vernadski Gold Medal, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2010 Shaw Prize, 2010 Crafoord Prize 2012, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Title of Baron granted by King of Belgium, 2016 Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Mathematics, 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, 2017 Dr. H.C. Hebrew University, 1991 Dr. H.C. Universit´eMarne-la-Vallee (France), 1994 Dr. H.C. Free University of Brussels (Belgium), 1995 Associ´eEtranger de l’Academie des Sciences, 2000 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy, 2000 Foreign Member Academia Europaea, 2008 Foreign Member Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2009 Foreign Associate National Academy of Sciences, 2011 Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013

1 International Congress of Mathematics, Warsaw (1983), Berkeley (1986), Zurich (1994) - plenary International Congress on , Paris (1994), Rio (2006) - plenary European Mathematical Congress, Paris (1992), Amsterdam (2008) - plenary Lecture Series: A. Zygmund Lectures, Univ. of Chicago, 1989 R de Francia Memorial Lectures, Univ. Autonoma, Spain, 1991 Colloquium Lectures AMS, 1994 A. Ziwet Lectures, Univ. of Michigan, 1995 IAS/Park City Lectures, Park City, 1995 Distinguished Lecture Series, UC, Irvine, 2000–2001 Fields Lectures, Toronto, 2004 T. Wolff Memorial Lectures, Caltech, 2004 Landau Lectures, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005 Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures, Univ. of Illinois, 2005 Goran Gustafsson Lectures, KTH, 2010 Alfors Lectures, Harvard, 2010 Leonardo da Vinci Lectures, Milan, 2011 Chern Lectures, UCB, 2012 Committees: ICM 1998, 2014: Chair Analysis section ICM 2002: Fields Medal committee Salem Prize, 1985 – Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems, 2007 – Editorial Boards: Publications Math´ematiques de l’IHES International Mathematical Research Notices Geometrical and Functional Analysis (GAFA) Journal d’Analyse de J´erusalem Journal of Functional Analysis Duke Journal of Mathematics Comptes Rendus Academie Sciences, Paris Monografic Matematyczne Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis

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